Monday, June 15, 2009

Welke Taal...Lurgy

Men are usually pretty blasé about being ill. However, it's a well known fact that man-flu is one of the most terrible illnesses known to...man. I'm lucky, I would regard myself as a fairly healthy person. At one time, I spent 3 cold free winters in a row. The cold virus caught me up when I moved to Belgium. I had 5 colds during my first winter here. I saw on tv that there are around 200 cold viruses doing the rounds in Britain, and once you have had a particular virus, you wont get it again.
At the age of 45, I guess that I've had my fair share of the common cold. However, despite my terrible first winter in Belgium, when Kleenex had a record year for sales in the Benelux countries, I have had one particular virus all year round. The symptoms include; Headache, upset stomach and nausea, wobbly and aching legs. I usually get it on a saturday or sunday morning. It can take three forms, Red or White, and the rarer Rosé and goes by the name of Wine Flu.
Yesterday, I got out of my sick bed for my regular sunday trip to the bakers. As readers will know, I declared a truce to the bread wars which blighted my sundays earlier in the year. There really hasn't been anything of note to report in recent months. All quiet on the bakers front. My order for this week was 2 croissants and a loaf of bread. I had a pocket full of klein geld (small change) and after finding out that croissants were 50c and the bread was €2, I worked out that the cost of my shopping would be €3. Lucky for me I took my calculator along.
So, I ordered my bread and croissants and was told by the shop assistant:

Shop Assistant:- Drie euro, zestig cent

Well, that didn't sound right, but I thought that probably the price list was out of date so I handed over my €3.60 and she gave me €1.40 change!
Huh!?

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